lawyers

Example Sentences

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But having a diploma on the wall is no guarantee of your lawyer’s competence or ethics.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026

As the United States Supreme Court explained in 1942, the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel implicitly embodies a “correlative right to dispense with a lawyer’s help.”

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

In August 2024, media executive Jeff Shell made his way to his lawyer’s office in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Century City to meet someone he had been told was behind nasty rumors about him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

He has long argued that he accepted Epstein and his lawyer's version of events and only discovered the truth after his death in 2019.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Not in the heart of the minuscule town, nor in the surrounding fields, nor in the area around Jot: Mondragon’s house, nor around the lawyer’s home either.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols